PREACHING,
PURPOSE OF

Doctrine should be such as should make men in love with the lesson, and not with the teacher.

Francis Bacon

Every sermon should be an agony of soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men.

John Chrysostom

People want to be comforted. They need consolation – really need it, and do not merely long for it.

R.W. Dale

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, “What a lovely sermon!” but, “I will do something!”

Francis of Sales

Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead.

John Ruskin

To humble the sinner,

to exalt the Savior,

and to promote holiness.

Charles Simeon

Some are dead; you must rouse them.

Some are troubled; you must comfort them.

Others are burdened; you must point them to the burden-bearer.

Still more are puzzled; you must enlighten them.

Still others are careless and indifferent; you must warn and woo them.

C.H. Spurgeon